Do plants have free choice?
Live plants are encased in a metal geodesic sphere and set off to wander the streets of London looking for suitable habitats to seed native plants.
Created by William Victor Camilleri and Danilo Sampaio, the designers at the Interactive Architecture Lab at University College London created the Hortum Machina B, a half garden-half machine that uses enhanced 'plant intelligence' to roll around on its own.
“Largely architecture is understood as static. buildings do not conform to nature, its environment and nor to human beings. we as architects feel the need to integrate plants in buildings to the point where people think of them as actual living systems. therefore, our general theme and approach in this set of projects is that plants should become part of our society as well as self-reliant, and be given the ability to autonomously interact and walk with us.”
"Plants should become part of our society as well as self-reliant, and be given the ability to autonomously interact and walk with us."
https://www.treehugger.com/hortum-machina-b-urban-cyber-gardener-4850937
https://www.designboom.com/design/hortum-machina-b-interactive-architecture-lab-04-22-2016/